At the beginning of March I travelled up to Colchester with my friend Lewis to ride with Sam Pilgrim at his house and his foam pit! We arrived at Sam's house at around 10.30 and rode his foam pit until about 2.

After about 20 minutes of riding we made a start on shooting pictures for the Mbuk article. Sam was helping me improve my tricks and teaching me others as well! I was surprised how riding with someone of that level actually helps a lot with your riding.

Sam had an old bike of his with no wheels taped up with bubble wrap and card board to make a bike that can be used on a trampoline. With no wheels, cranks, brakes or pedals it was very small and flighty and the perfect thing to learn on. I took the chance to perfect my technique for tail whips.

I then used jump on my bike and with a bit more effort, landed to the pedals in the foam pit. He also helped me with my superman’s and I was giving some superman seat grabs ago as well. In the afternoon we drove out to Dedham to ride Sam's jumps. I started off slowly as I hadn't ridden dirt in quite a while but got used to them fairly quickly.

After doing some no-footed cans, back flips, superman’s, and a back flip x-up, Robin (Mbuk photographer) was waiting for me to try a tail whip. I'd never attempted a tail whip over dirt before and I’d only just learnt the proper technique about 2 hours before in the foam. But I went for it anyway. I had about five goes and managed to ride away with 1 foot dragging!

Overall a great days riding and pretty cool article.

To see the pictures from this day of riding and the full article grab a copy of Mbuk issue 224 and check it out.